1.   Concentration in the literature on productivity growth tends to deflect attention from absolute differences in productivity.

2.   It has deflected attention from our own deficiencies and the mess of the pound.

3.   Right from the start he wanted me out of the film, because he felt I was deflecting attention away from him.

4.   They could deflect attention from the bride.

5.   To begin with, Sarah Ferguson deflected the attentions of the media too.

6.   They are trying to deflect attention from the troubled economy.

7.   She blinked and scoured her brain desperately for a neutral topic of conversation to deflect his attention, but the question which emerged proved far from neutral.

8.   And it deflected attention from reports of the enormous sums of campaign money that Bush has received over the years from the gas and oil industry.

9.   And Friday, Council leaders accused Giuliani of trying to deflect attention from his own troubles by pointing to the lobbying of the Council.

10.   And Steinbrenner has obviously decided to deflect attention from his part in the storm by attacking Showalter and Michael through Tartabull.